This past fall some of the high school students at Island Pacific Academy participated in an art contest: the challenge was to create a design for a custom surfboard. Many students entered the contest, some had multiple entries. The winner would then have the opportunity to paint the design on a surfboard blank.
IPA students submitted concept sketches of their surfboard designs and one winner was chosen. The artist of the winning design then had to recreate the paper sketch onto the board and begin painting.
Micah Hirokawa, IPA secondary music teacher and surfboard shaper, led the charge by donating the board. Sophomore Cyanne Moreland’s dynamic octopus design won the art contest and she spent many hours translating her work from a letter size paper to a 6’ surfboard. Using cautious and precise strokes Cyanne’s octopus wraps and slithers its way around the board. The cost to have the custom surfboard professionally glassed was donated by a relative of other IPA students.
Cyanne Moreland (’18) spent hours painting in the details of her wrap-around octopus design.
This one of a kind surfboard will be up for auction at this year’s Grand Expedition – Live Auction. It is currently on display at IPA’s Secondary Lobby.
Moreland and Hirowkawa were thrilled with the finished result when the surfboard came back to the school from being glassed.
To get your tickets to Grand Expedition and your chance to bid on this amazing piece of art visit www.tinyurl.com/ipagrandx
